Amazon’s cloud CEO just pooh-poohed employee concerns about selling its facial-recognition software to ICE and law enforcement (AMZN)

At a company meeting Thursday, Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, addressed employees’ concerns about the company’s practice of offering its facial-recognition software to immigration and law-enforcement agencies, according to BuzzFeed News.

Jassy largely dismissed those concerns, suggesting they weren’t broadly shared in the company and arguing that the company’s terms of service would prevent its software from being used for bad purposes, the report said.

At a company meeting Thursday, the head of Amazon’s cloud-computing division largely dismissed employees’ concerns about it marketing its facial-recognition technology to immigration and law-enforcement agencies, BuzzFeed News reported.

Hundreds of Amazon employees have signed a letter to CEO Jeff Bezos asking that the company stop offering that software, dubbed Rekognition, to law enforcement officials. But at the meeting, Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, suggested that their concerns weren’t shared universally within the company, according to the BuzzFeed News report. And Amazon’s management is comfortable with continuing to offer the software to government agencies, he said.